If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. - Margery Wilson
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
- Margery Wilson
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and en… - Margery Wilson
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and en…
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members. - Margery Wilson
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I hav… - Margery Wilson
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I hav…
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. - Margery Wilson
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.
Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - wh… - Margery Wilson
Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - wh…
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourage… - Margery Wilson
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourage…
So few people can think and talk at the same time. - Margery Wilson
So few people can think and talk at the same time.
Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood … - Margery Wilson
Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood …
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